On-farm trials to validate encapsulated essential oils to control necrotic enteritis in broilers

Principal Investigator

Qi Wang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Year the work was done

2018-2021

Overall objective

  • Validate the effectiveness of previously developed microencapsulated essential oil product as a viable alternative to antibiotics in controlling necrotic enteritis (NE) and its impact on chicken growth performance and fitness into the current system of commercial production of broilers (economic impact).

This research applies to

Broilers

This research was supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian Poultry Research Council, Chicken Farmers of Saskatchewan, LEL Farms and Gowans Feed Consulting.